We are facing a domestic and family violence crisis, but the specialist frontline services we rely on to keep victim-survivors safe are dangerously underfunded. After years of chronic underinvestment, as demand for their specialist clinical support has steadily increased, these services are now at breaking point.
Frontline services provide critical and irreplaceable support to women and children fleeing violence, from crisis accommodation to long-term housing, to legal and financial support, to healing and recovery. They provide genuinely life-saving services.
Despite public pressure, successive governments have stubbornly refused to increase funding for these vital services, instead choosing a primarily law and order response and ad-hoc announceables. But the pleas from the domestic and family violence sector have been clear for years. What is required as a priority is a significant and permanent increase in baseline funding for existing specialist frontline domestic and family violence services.
Frontline services perform critical life saving work on behalf of our communities every single day. But they can’t do it while the government continues to starve them of the funding they need to deliver it.
Send an email to the NSW Labor Government, demanding they properly fund domestic and family violence services and programs in the 2025-26 NSW Budget.
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